Certificate in Bookkeeping
Accurate bookkeeping is critical to the survival of businesses. This certificate is designed to help you become more effective in managing the financial aspects of your enterprise. You will explore areas in basic accounting, simply accounting and payroll concepts. This certificate will give you the knowledge to make better informed financial decisions and plan more effectively for the future.
Note: Classes may be done individually.
Certificate Requirements
Core Courses
Basic Accounting, Level 1
Acquire the accounting concepts and procedures you need to inform your operating decisions. Having that knowledge not only helps you manage your business, it balances your reliance on someone else’s assessment of your company’s financial condition. Among the topics you’ll cover are balance sheets, income statements, ledger transactions, trial balances, and closing entries.
Basic Accounting, Level 2
Prerequisites: Bookkeeping, Level 1, or equivalent.
With a basic understanding of accounting principles and procedures in hand, you’re now equipped to take a penetrating look at detailed financial statements: how to read them, the reporting conventions they follow and what they tell you and other stakeholders about your business.
Simply Accounting, Level 1
Simply Accounting is the perfect accounting software for your fast-moving, small- to medium-sized business; easy to use yet powerful enough to keep up with all of your accounting needs. You’ll take a practical approach to learning the software by setting up a company and its accounts, populating the accounts and manipulating the accounts’ data.
Simply Accounting, Level 2
Using the skills developed in Simply Accounting, Level 1, you’ll learn to manage the wider scope of transactions encountered in bookkeeping including payroll, inventory and services, projects, accounts receivable and accounts payable.
Introduction to Payroll Concepts
Examine the various concepts of payroll. Topics include the employer/employee relationship, types of remuneration, hours of work legislation, payroll deductions, employee termination, government remittances and year-end requirements. This class is a must for setting up and maintaining a reliable payroll system for new and existing businesses.
Electives (choose one)
Microsoft Excel
Discover why spreadsheets have become one of the most popular applications for businesses—and just about any other type of organization—with a need to store and communicate data effectively. You’ll learn how to enter data into a worksheet; navigate, format and customize a worksheet; create and apply simple formulae, perform basic charting and prepare Excel documents for printing.
Migrating to Microsoft Office 2007
An overview of Microsoft Office's suite of applications.
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